The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-26

" THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM. 1"

three-cOlumn communication to the
don '"Times," January Goth, appears
er this heading, together with an
Orial article founded upon it. Fully
third of the contributed article 'By
aWaiian" is an almost literal trans
t OF the Constitutional and His
cal Notes" in the HONOLULU ALMA
AND DIRECTORY, 1886, pages 81 to
inclusive, with extracts from pages
- and y, and is therefore correct in
every particular. The chief value of the
munication, however, lies in the fact
that it brings the capabilities and re-
SOIL ces of this country before the
%, NED classes of England through the
200 erful agency of the Chimes" This
is decided advantage, and one for
vs. ch the author of it deserves thanks
7 : editorial article, commenting upon
tbs communication, is not 50 practical.
7, Ievotes almost a column to a DISGUST
ton upon the violent death of Captain
James Cook, the discoverer, at Hawaii,
and winds up with the following appre-
Cd i've remarks:
awaiians have a past which is much
be -er worth recalling than the days of
their savage infancy. What they did or
d not in their prehistoric days is imma-
te al. More TO the purpose is it that in
historical age of a century they have
created a constitution and institutions
winch match the most enlightened in Eu-
rope. Each successive Monarch in his too
brief reign has recognized intuitively, and
tried to acclimatize, the last results of civil
lied administration. Our correspondents
lucid survey of the stages by which Ha-
wali has attained its existing system of
government might be the record of half a
dozen centuries instead of one. King after
King has voluntarily surrendered some
thing OF his autOcracy, in order to train
MS people IN the art of citizenship.
american and European statute books
hive been searched for wise laws The
Judicature has been modelled in a manner
TO combine care in the original selection
OF the magistrates and security for their
Independence. considerable revenue is
aised, and is spent for the national bene-
III The various reforms are not on paper
alone. They may be tested by their effects.
No civilized State is in fact more thor
"g ghly organized; and in none are life,
order and property practically safer. No
ere, by the common consent of those
WHO have tried, is life easier and more
agreeable than for the subjects of the Ha-
lian Kingdom. The single defect is
that they who participate in the advan-
tages are so few. Originally from moral
deficiencies, the native population dimin
ished until it appeared as if one or two
generations would see it perish and be-
come as extinct as the dOdo. Christianity
and measures of police have arrested the
rapid decline. They have not retrieved
the past. The population at the best re-
mans stationary, and shows no tendency
to resume movement upwards. If it is
to be replenished, it must probably be bv
~ cans of immigration from foreign lands.
To settlers not so ferociously European as
t. be unable to dispense with winters like the
present, yet sufficiently sturdy in charac-
ter and constitution not to be enervated bv
a CLIMATE always gracious and bland. Ha-
waii can offer the most delightful of
homes, and its Government promises oil
t. advantages of civilization and a most
cor ial hospitality.